Word: mellower
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Stone typically bites and claws at his subjects, then spits out phantasmagoric movie melodrama--terrific stuff like Platoon and JFK. This time he's almost mellow. The script, which he wrote with Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson, argues that Nixon had a dark role in anti-Castro mischief; the Cuba connection keeps echoing. The movie also nails him for the Cambodian bombing that set in motion the destruction of a beautiful country. Oddly, Stone doesn't find Nixon guilty of starting the Vietnam War or killing John Kennedy. He does pock the film with right-wing poobahs who anticipate...
...dance is clearly present in the sonata, in which the saxophone and piano trade off short, melodic phrases and nervous, jagged notes. In the third movement, the lyrical quality of the dance music comes to the fore, with longer, even languorous saxophone solos that seem reminiscent of the mellow, probing style of a Grover Washington, Jr. or David Sanborn...
...concert last month in New York City, D'Angelo was ushered on stage by his band playing the theme from Shaft. And on his new album he delivers a mellow, unpretentious version of Smokey Robinson's classic Cruisin'. D'Angelo, 21, has a pleasant, floating falsetto, and he shows his vocal skills off well on Cruisin' as well as on the romantic, melodic Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine. He could, however, work a bit more on his lyrics, which lack the lubricated finesse evident in the rest of his songcraft. On Me and Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine...
There were rumors, hoaxes really, about moreobscure highs--a report that an obscure brand ofIndian cigarettes produced a high emptied HarvardSquare stocks of that brand, and a few peopletried smoking banana peels after a similar reportabout Mellow Yellow highs from the peels...
Despite the aesthetic pleasure (and sick glee) to be enjoyed from the above short's the best films of the bunch are also the funniest. "The Janitor," an Oscar nominee by Canadian Vanessa Schwartz, uses mellow vernacular and quirky sketches of a naked old man's body to bring a janitor of the universe to life. Lines describing the moon as a "sure" nub dustcatcher" don't hurt either...